Secret_History

Chapter 11: Time 477
supposed to have committed; but this can be discounted as the standard cause
assigned to all disasters by Sumerians and Akkadians alike. The troubles, in fact,
were probably caused by the inability of one man, however energetic, to control so
vast an empire. There is no evidence to suggest that he was particularly harsh, nor
that the Sumerians disliked him for being a Semite. What’s more, the empire did
not collapse totally, for Sargon’s successors were able to control their legacy, and
later generations thought of him as being perhaps the greatest name in their
history. What is most interesting is that Sargon attributed his success to the
patronage of the goddess Ishtar, in whose honor Agade was erected.
Sargon’s story sounds a lot like a combination of the Biblical stories of Moses,
David and Solomon and certainly, there is evidence of infusion of Semitic
traditions into the culture of the Sumerians. We also wish to consider the the fact
that Sargon was the first “semite”. Nowadays “Semitic peoples” are generally
understood to be, more or less, individuals of Middle Eastern origins: Jews and
Arabs predominantly. That is to say, to be an Arab or a Jew is to be “Semitic”.
In recent years the idea has taken hold that the Ashkenazi Jews are really
Turkish and not Jews at all. Recent genetic studies place the Ashkenazi as closest
in kinship to Roman Jews on one side, who are just a small step away from
Lebanese non-Jews, and Syrian non-Jews on the other. The Syrian non-Jews are
very close to the Kurdish Jews and the Palestinian non-Jews - i.e. the
“Palestinians”.
What actually seems to have happened is that when the Khazar kingdom
“converted” to Judaism, they invited Jewish rabbis to come and teach them how to
be proper Jews. These rabbis, being “proper Jews”, took Khazar wives, mixing
with the Khazar population in this way. Additionally, after the fall of the Khazar
kingdom, Yiddish-speaking “Jewish” immigrants from the west (especially
Germany, Bohemia, and other areas of Central Europe) - which would include
Roman Jewish lines - began to flood into Eastern Europe, and it is believed that
these newer immigrants intermarried with the Khazars. Thus, Eastern European
Jews have a mix of ancestors who came from Central Europe and from the Khazar
kingdom. The two groups (eastern and western Jews) intermarried over the
centuries.
In this sense, the Ashkenazi Jews are, indeed, descendants of the Israelites
through the male line. 352
352 Jews are represented by triangles: Ashkenazim = Ash, Roman Jews = Rom, North African Jews =
Naf; Near Eastern Jews = Nea; Kurdish Jews = Kur, Yemenite Jews = Yem; Ethiopian Jews = EtJ; non-
Jewish Middle Easterners = Pal, non-Jewish Syrians = Syr, non-Jewish Lebanes = Leb, Israeli Druze =
Dru, non-Jewish Saudi Arabians = Sar; Non-Jewish Europeans: Rus = Russians, Bri = British, Ger =
Germans, Aus = Austrians, Ita = Italians, Spa = Spanish, Gre = Greeks, Tun = North Africans and
Tunisians; Egy = Egyptians, Eth = Ethiopians, Gam = Gambians, Bia = Giaka, Bag = Bagandans, San
= San, Zul = Zulu. Tur = non Jewish Turks, Lem = Lemba from south Africa.